[willy]

Done that too, blacksmithing that is, actually bladesmithing. Making hand forged knives.
I think we are brothers by a different mother ;)

Understand about the primitive drive, been there and done that. It was nice making my own self bows and I did enjoy it. I would highly recommend you skip the sinew string thing though. You won't like it and it shoots like sh!t unless you live in Arizona or something. Any humidity and they turn to rubber bands that don't stretch back. And that is the indians that used them out in the southwest. Anywhere else they made fiber based or gut based string until the white man showed them some other alternatives and then they dropped that like a hot rock. Indians are smart.